Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications
© 2019, The Author(s). Ultrathin transition metal carbides with high capacity, high surface area, and high conductivity are a promising family of materials for applications from energy storage to catalysis. However, large-scale, cost-effective, and precursor-free methods to prepare ultrathin carbide...
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| author | Zang, Xining Jian, Cuiying Zhu, Taishan Fan, Zheng Wang, Wanlin Wei, Minsong Li, Buxuan Follmar Diaz, Mateo Ashby, Paul Lu, Zhengmao Chu, Yao Wang, Zizhao Ding, Xinrui Xie, Yingxi Chen, Juhong Hohman, J Nathan Sanghadasa, Mohan Grossman, Jeffrey C Lin, Liwei |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Zang, Xining Jian, Cuiying Zhu, Taishan Fan, Zheng Wang, Wanlin Wei, Minsong Li, Buxuan Follmar Diaz, Mateo Ashby, Paul Lu, Zhengmao Chu, Yao Wang, Zizhao Ding, Xinrui Xie, Yingxi Chen, Juhong Hohman, J Nathan Sanghadasa, Mohan Grossman, Jeffrey C Lin, Liwei |
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| description | © 2019, The Author(s). Ultrathin transition metal carbides with high capacity, high surface area, and high conductivity are a promising family of materials for applications from energy storage to catalysis. However, large-scale, cost-effective, and precursor-free methods to prepare ultrathin carbides are lacking. Here, we demonstrate a direct pattern method to manufacture ultrathin carbides (MoCx, WCx, and CoCx) on versatile substrates using a CO2 laser. The laser-sculptured polycrystalline carbides (macroporous, ~10–20 nm wall thickness, ~10 nm crystallinity) show high energy storage capability, hierarchical porous structure, and higher thermal resilience than MXenes and other laser-ablated carbon materials. A flexible supercapacitor made of MoCx demonstrates a wide temperature range (−50 to 300 °C). Furthermore, the sculptured microstructures endow the carbide network with enhanced visible light absorption, providing high solar energy harvesting efficiency (~72 %) for steam generation. The laser-based, scalable, resilient, and low-cost manufacturing process presents an approach for construction of carbides and their subsequent applications. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1347972023-09-19T20:20:51Z Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications Zang, Xining Jian, Cuiying Zhu, Taishan Fan, Zheng Wang, Wanlin Wei, Minsong Li, Buxuan Follmar Diaz, Mateo Ashby, Paul Lu, Zhengmao Chu, Yao Wang, Zizhao Ding, Xinrui Xie, Yingxi Chen, Juhong Hohman, J Nathan Sanghadasa, Mohan Grossman, Jeffrey C Lin, Liwei Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering © 2019, The Author(s). Ultrathin transition metal carbides with high capacity, high surface area, and high conductivity are a promising family of materials for applications from energy storage to catalysis. However, large-scale, cost-effective, and precursor-free methods to prepare ultrathin carbides are lacking. Here, we demonstrate a direct pattern method to manufacture ultrathin carbides (MoCx, WCx, and CoCx) on versatile substrates using a CO2 laser. The laser-sculptured polycrystalline carbides (macroporous, ~10–20 nm wall thickness, ~10 nm crystallinity) show high energy storage capability, hierarchical porous structure, and higher thermal resilience than MXenes and other laser-ablated carbon materials. A flexible supercapacitor made of MoCx demonstrates a wide temperature range (−50 to 300 °C). Furthermore, the sculptured microstructures endow the carbide network with enhanced visible light absorption, providing high solar energy harvesting efficiency (~72 %) for steam generation. The laser-based, scalable, resilient, and low-cost manufacturing process presents an approach for construction of carbides and their subsequent applications. 2021-10-27T20:09:13Z 2021-10-27T20:09:13Z 2019 2019-09-19T14:40:39Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134797 en 10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature |
| spellingShingle | Zang, Xining Jian, Cuiying Zhu, Taishan Fan, Zheng Wang, Wanlin Wei, Minsong Li, Buxuan Follmar Diaz, Mateo Ashby, Paul Lu, Zhengmao Chu, Yao Wang, Zizhao Ding, Xinrui Xie, Yingxi Chen, Juhong Hohman, J Nathan Sanghadasa, Mohan Grossman, Jeffrey C Lin, Liwei Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title | Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title_full | Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title_fullStr | Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title_short | Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| title_sort | laser sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134797 |
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